Comments on: God is Still God and God is Still Good http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/ Hi! This is my chance to chat with you about anything that pops into my mind. That means it is usually unedited and unpolished, just like conversations with friends ought to be. So, grab a cup of coffee or tea and let's talk! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Adams http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2437 Jeff Adams Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:28:02 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2437 Same right back you! Waiting for you to cash in your free meal ticket here in KC! And, we will hold you up in prayer. Same right back you! Waiting for you to cash in your free meal ticket here in KC! And, we will hold you up in prayer.

]]> By: Jim http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2436 Jim Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:34:29 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2436 It was an incredible blessing to see you again. Thank you very much for praying for us! Thank you for the way God has used you to be a blessing to our family for many years! It was an incredible blessing to see you again. Thank you very much for praying for us! Thank you for the way God has used you to be a blessing to our family for many years!

]]> By: Abrahams http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2435 Abrahams Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:41:06 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2435 To V: It isn't often that God give us the opportunity to see things with "20-20 vision" when looking back over a period of time. I have experienced this and count myself privileged. Keep looking forwarc to the miracle that is happening in your sister's life. Remember, it has affected your life also. How have YOU changed? My Pastor once told me something to the effect of "think of how different you would be if you hadn't gone through such and such." Outside of my salvati9n, I can look back with 20-20 vision and see two distinct life changing events that changed the course of my life. Hard as they were at the time, I'm grateful for them noa.; To V:

It isn't often that God give us the opportunity to see things with "20-20 vision" when looking back over a period of time.

I have experienced this and count myself privileged.

Keep looking forwarc to the miracle that is happening in your sister's life. Remember, it has affected your life also. How have YOU changed? My Pastor once told me something to the effect of "think of how different you would be if you hadn't gone through such and such."

Outside of my salvati9n, I can look back with 20-20 vision and see two distinct life changing events that changed the course of my life. Hard as they were at the time, I'm grateful for them noa.;

]]> By: V http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2434 V Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:59:43 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2434 Christine, thanks for that reminder of how it has impacted me. I guess I haven't felt like I had the right to feel "impacted" because my sister suffered so greatly as she ministered to her ailing husband. Truly I think I was most impacted by how much he loved me in my life and how much he loved others until the day he passed and his daily plea that we set all discord aside and always, always love. It has been a blessing to see how God has used that death for His Glory. We just don't know what God is planning and how he plans to use us. My desire in sharing his story was to give hope and to instill trust that even when we don't understand the incredible pain we are facing or see others facing, God can, and likely is, using it for something incredibly glorious. Time will give them that understanding. Until then I pray that they truly have the peace that passes all understanding to deal with the pain they are facing. Christine, thanks for that reminder of how it has impacted me. I guess I haven’t felt like I had the right to feel “impacted” because my sister suffered so greatly as she ministered to her ailing husband. Truly I think I was most impacted by how much he loved me in my life and how much he loved others until the day he passed and his daily plea that we set all discord aside and always, always love.

It has been a blessing to see how God has used that death for His Glory. We just don’t know what God is planning and how he plans to use us.

My desire in sharing his story was to give hope and to instill trust that even when we don’t understand the incredible pain we are facing or see others facing, God can, and likely is, using it for something incredibly glorious. Time will give them that understanding. Until then I pray that they truly have the peace that passes all understanding to deal with the pain they are facing.

]]> By: Christine Foutts http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2433 Christine Foutts Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:09 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2433 To V: It isn't often that God give us the opportunity to see things with "20-20 vision" when looking back over a period of time. I have experienced this and count myself privileged. Keep looking forward to the miracle that is happening in your sister's life. Remember, it has affected your life also. How have YOU changed? My Pastor once told me something to the effect of "think of how different you would be if you hadn't gone through such and such." Outside of my salvation, I can look back with 20-20 vision and see two distinct life changing events that changed the course of my life. Hard as they were at the time, I'm grateful for them now. To V:

It isn’t often that God give us the opportunity to see things with “20-20 vision” when looking back over a period of time.

I have experienced this and count myself privileged.

Keep looking forward to the miracle that is happening in your sister’s life. Remember, it has affected your life also. How have YOU changed? My Pastor once told me something to the effect of “think of how different you would be if you hadn’t gone through such and such.”

Outside of my salvation, I can look back with 20-20 vision and see two distinct life changing events that changed the course of my life. Hard as they were at the time, I’m grateful for them now.

]]> By: Pam Johnston http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2432 Pam Johnston Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:46:17 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2432 What a powerful story! I will be praying for God to heal him but most that God's perfect will be done in his life. We are not told how many days we have but I know as Zak knows is the God is good all the time. My prayer is that God would shower extra grace to Zak and his family. May we all not waste a day given to us by our loving God. Thanks for sharing this. Pam What a powerful story! I will be praying for God to heal him but most that God’s perfect will be done in his life. We are not told how many days we have but I know as Zak knows is the God is good all the time. My prayer is that God would shower extra grace to Zak and his family. May we all not waste a day given to us by our loving God.

Thanks for sharing this.
Pam

]]> By: Debbie http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2431 Debbie Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:56:19 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2431 Incredibly powerful...I am stunned at how tragic Jim's story is, but also quite humbled at how very edifying his life is and will be to anyone who sees & hears this. May our Lord comfort him and his beautiful family. I pray for Jim's healing if that is God's plan for him, & peace for his family if He takes Jim home. Incredibly powerful…I am stunned at how tragic Jim’s story is, but also quite humbled at how very edifying his life is and will be to anyone who sees & hears this. May our Lord comfort him and his beautiful family. I pray for Jim’s healing if that is God’s plan for him, & peace for his family if He takes Jim home.

]]> By: V http://drjeffadams.com/2010/03/09/god-is-still-god-and-god-is-still-good/#comment-2430 V Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:04:40 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2510#comment-2430 Jeff, This broke my heart. We lost my sister's young husband to a similar cancer on Christmas eve 2005. I truly believe that he was saved, but very much doubted for my sister and her grown children. I don't know God's plans, but I know that today my sister has remarried a man that not only has her growing in a bible based church, but also my mother and his unfluence is begining to reach her daughters. Seeing his months of suffering and our hearts break as we were told nothing more could be done and he made the unimaginable choice to stop all feedings so that he would have 5 months with his family instead of 3... watching the cancer starve his body and to hear my sister crying out to God to please take him now so he wouldn't suffer anymore and then return to him strong and unshaken in her ministry to him has shown me the inhumanity of cancer and the humanity of the ones that love the stricken. Today I can see God's plan as a man that knew Christ went home to be with his Lord and another man is now helping my sister to grow in Christ. I can see that part of the plan. As painful as it is, it is a glorious thing to see a man of God go home to his God and to watch what God can do in that man's absence. I pray for your friends to trust completely in God as they go through what no one should. Jeff, This broke my heart. We lost my sister’s young husband to a similar cancer on Christmas eve 2005. I truly believe that he was saved, but very much doubted for my sister and her grown children. I don’t know God’s plans, but I know that today my sister has remarried a man that not only has her growing in a bible based church, but also my mother and his unfluence is begining to reach her daughters.

Seeing his months of suffering and our hearts break as we were told nothing more could be done and he made the unimaginable choice to stop all feedings so that he would have 5 months with his family instead of 3… watching the cancer starve his body and to hear my sister crying out to God to please take him now so he wouldn’t suffer anymore and then return to him strong and unshaken in her ministry to him has shown me the inhumanity of cancer and the humanity of the ones that love the stricken.

Today I can see God’s plan as a man that knew Christ went home to be with his Lord and another man is now helping my sister to grow in Christ. I can see that part of the plan. As painful as it is, it is a glorious thing to see a man of God go home to his God and to watch what God can do in that man’s absence. I pray for your friends to trust completely in God as they go through what no one should.

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